Biography Born on: 1946 , Vancouver, British Columbia,Canada Jeffrey "Jeff" Wall, is a Canadian artist best known for his large-scale back-litcibachrome photographs and art history writing. His photographic tableaux often take Vancouver's mixture of natural beauty, urban decay and postmodern and industrial featurelessness as their backdrop. He has claimed, and been interpreted as often playing with the notion that implicit in every photograph is the sense of what happened before the moment depicted and what may happen after. Wall has expressed the proposition that artwork which holds merely one clear meaning is either dull or propagandistic, and that good art, to be appreciated as such, must be beautiful in order hold a viewer's attention. Wall’s often uses traditional paintings as casts for his compositions, as if ‘what belongs to art’ can be sensed, or perhaps deduced, behind that which ’belongs to life’. |
"The spontaneous is the most beautiful thing that can appear in a picture, but nothing in art appears less spontaneously than that." - Jeff Wall
Jeff.Wall’s large scale photographic images depict the life of people and their living spaces in a staged manner. His eye for details and use of actors and artificial lighting allows him to narrate the stories of
urban life in a cinematographic way.
Jeff.Wall’s large scale photographic images depict the life of people and their living spaces in a staged manner. His eye for details and use of actors and artificial lighting allows him to narrate the stories of
urban life in a cinematographic way.